I would agree that a good process, in the hands of incompetent
management, will lead to bad results. I was an education major in a
previous life, and I saw how processes that sounded good when I
learned about them in my ed classes could be corrupted into yet
another form of ineffective paint-by-num
On 07/12/2012 09:52 PM, David Kramer wrote:
Mark, we've had had this conversation before, and you have met me, so
I can safely say you're lying.
I want to add another note. There are a lot of companies in this
industry and a number of them are genuinely good places to work. The
majority of co
On 07/12/2012 09:52 PM, David Kramer wrote:
On 07/12/2012 12:53 PM, Mark Woodward wrote:
I think "agile" development is probably the most abusive management
technique ever devised. Sure, aspects of it are good software
development processes, but the implementation is pretty exploitive, in
my opi
Doug wrote:
> Does an agile development process make sense for projects...with
> people who don't live in the same states or countries?
Yes. I've worked on long duration projects with distributed teams
following agile methodologies. It works just as well at a distance
(providing you can figure out
On 07/12/2012 12:53 PM, Mark Woodward wrote:
>
> I think "agile" development is probably the most abusive management
> technique ever devised. Sure, aspects of it are good software
> development processes, but the implementation is pretty exploitive, in
> my opinion. Every "agile" environment I ha
On 07/12/2012 12:16 PM, Doug wrote:
I think "agile" development is probably the most abusive management
technique ever devised. Sure, aspects of it are good software
development processes, but the implementation is pretty exploitive, in
my opinion. Every "agile" environment I have seen works t
Does an agile development process make sense for projects that are all
volunteer based, with people who don't live in the same states or
countries? In my job, we use greenhopper, part of www.atlassian.com
set of software. There are morning scrum meetings, story sessions,
sprint planning and sprin
